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Local knowledge: Pembrokeshire

A pop star, a fisherwoman, an author, a TV presenter and a fiddler tell us where to go

October 22 2006, 1:00am, The Sunday Times

It's one of the wildest and most wonderful strips of shoreline in Britain - so why confine yourself to honeypots like Tenby and St David's? We asked the locals to pick out some prime spots off Pembrokeshire's beaten track.

DAVID GRAY

The multimillion-selling singer- songwriter was raised in Solva, where his mum still runs the Window on Wales craft shop

"I remember like yesterday the day we moved from Manchester to a tiny cottage tucked under a hill in Lower Solva. There was a picturesque fishing harbour outside the door, a bluebell wood behind: I was eight, and I thought, 'This is Action Man heaven.'

"My friend Jonathan had a 15hp dinghy; we'd catch mackerel and cook it on the beach, and swim with Simo, the…